List of compositions by Gerald Finzi


The early-twentieth-century British composer Gerald Finzi is recognized largely for several song cycles, setting texts from a wide selection English poets, including Thomas Traherne, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Robert Bridges and Edmund Blunden. However, his oeuvre includes well-regarded concerti for clarinet and cello, choral works, works for string orchestra, and chamber music.
Born in London, Finzi was of German Jewish and Italian Jewish descent. But his compositions place him as among the most characteristically "English" composers of his generation. Despite being agnostic, he wrote some inspired and imposing Christian choral music that remains consistently in the performance repertoire.

List of compositions by opus number

The most common method of numbering Finzi's works is by opus number as assigned by his publishers during his lifetime.
Opus NumberTitle of compositionYear composedFirst performanceCommentsNotes
1Ten Children’s Songs
Songs to poems by Christina Rossetti		---
2By Footpath and Stile1922--
3English Pastorals and Elegies
No. 1 – A Severn Rhapsody
No. 2 – Requiem da camera		---
4Psalms for unaccompanied SATB---
5Three Short Elegies---
6Introitmid-1920sMay 1927
1928		-
7Nocturne for Orchestra in C-Sharp Minor----
8Dies natalis 1938–1939Wigmore Hall, January 1940
9Farewell to Arms 1944---
10Eclogue for piano and strings---
11Romance for String Orchestra1928---
12Two Sonnets by John Milton or Two Milton Sonnets
No. 1 "When I consider how my life is spent"
No. 2 "How soon hath Time"		1928---
13a"To a Poet"---
13b"Oh Fair to See"---
14A Young Man’s Exhortation---
15Earth and Air and Rain-
16Before and After Summer---
17Seven Partsongs – Poems by Robert Bridges
No. 1: "I praise the tender flower"
No. 2: "I have loved flowers that fade"
No. 3: "My spirit sang all day"
No. 4: "Clear and gentle stream"
No. 5: "Nightingales"
No. 6: "Haste on, my joys!"
No. 7: "Wherefore tonight so full of care		---
18Let Us Garlands Bring
1. "Come away death"
2. "Who is Silvia?"
3. "Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun"
4. "Oh mistress mine"
5. "It was a lover and his lass"
1942--
19aTill Earth Outwears---
19bI Said to Love---
20The Fall of the Leaf – Elegy for Orchestra---
21Interlude for Oboe and String Quartet1933–1936--
22Elegy---
23Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano---
24Prelude and Fugue---
25Prelude for strings----
26"Lo, the full, final sacrifice"194621 September 1946—St Matthew's Day-
27Three Anthems
No. 1: "My lovely one"
No. 2: "God is gone up"
No. 3: "Welcome sweet and sacred feast"
1946
1951
1953		--
28aLove’s Labour’s Lost 1946--
28bLove’s Labour’s Lost 1946--
29Intimations of Immortalitylate 1930s, completed 19501950 Three Choirs Festival, conducted by Herbert Sumsion-
30For St Cecilia1947On 22 November 1947 at the Royal Albert Hall by René Soames with the Luton Choral Society and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult-
31Clarinet Concerto1949---
32Thou didst delight my eyes--
33All this night---
34Muses and Graces---
35Let us now praise famous men---
36Magnificat----
37White-flowering days19531 June 1953-
38Grand Fantasia and Toccata---
39In terra pax---
40Cello Concerto in a minor195519 July 1955 at the Cheltenham Music Festival, conducted by John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra, and cellist Christopher Bunting-
Posth.Violin Concerto -1928-